Dora

“We perish, each alone, and his remoteness.”
― Virginia Woolf

“We do not live in a simple world.”
― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems

“These were the lovely bones that has grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“To a very great extent the term "science" is reserved for fields that do progress in obvious ways. Nowhere does this show more clearly than in the recurrent debates about whether one or another of the contemporary social sciences is a real science. These debates have parallels in the pre-paradigm periods of fields that are today unhesitatingly labeled science.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions